The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.
Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.
Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."
There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.
I'm a very distracted person.
It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.
I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.
I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.
I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.
